in a flood of tears; fhowered down a thousand curfes on my rival; and vowed vengeance on my feducer. She fuffered me to exhauft of lamentations, and, when I became ftock my calm, endeavoured to convince me of the folly of indulging grief, when I ought fooner to think of intereft. "You are young," cried fhe, "with fuch a flock of beauty, there is no danger of wanting lovers, but titled ones are not every day to be met with. Endeavour to get a fettlement from him before his affection cools, and never trouble yourself who is the object of his preference."

"Aye! but my dear Mrs. Spencer; after believing that I fhould certainly be lady Moreton, how fhall I bear to fhew myself in the world after my dif appointment? What will become of my parents, when they hear that the perfidious man has deferted me for another?

"Pho! Pho! banish all these childish thoughts, and think only of a fettlement. In the next fond fit in which you find him, vow immediately to leave him, unless he makes you independent of the world."

"Nay, for that matter, I have no reafon now to complain on the fubject of his generofity, for in cafe of failure of his promife, I have a bond against him for twenty thousand pounds."

"Say you fo! indeed? Then, Mifs Tafty, you have no real motive for your grief. Such a confideration would confole me for the lofs of a thoufand lovers; befides, fhould his lordship marry, it may be merely a match of convenience, you may ftill enjoy his heart, though his lady enjoys his title."

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Aye, Spencer, but the title is my grief; to lofe all hopes of that is worse than the lofs of his affection: befides, the charms of the lady leave not a doubt, but fhe will poffefs both one and the other."

Thus ran we on till the coach ftopped, and the moment we were fet down, I flew to my drawers for the bond. She took it from my hand, and after running it over, fhrugged up

her fhoulders, and returning it, ex-
claimed, with hands up lifted, "Ah,
my dear girl, what a dupe! Why,
that paper on which you place fo
groat."
much dependance is not worth a

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you mean? Is it not an obligation by
Heavens, Spencer! what do
which he binds himself to marry me
in a month from the date thereof, or
fhould I claim it, forfeit the fum
therein mentioned."

much; but where Mifs Taity was
"The words certainly fignify as
your fenfes when you forgot to have
it dated?"

and aftonifhment, when I beheld in
Think, Betfy, what was my rage
in reality the deficiency fhe mention-
and, but for her perfuafions, thould have
ed! I tore my hair for very madness,
upbraided him with his perfidy the
moment he returned. She endea-
voured to convince me of the folly of
trary behaviour would be far most
indulging my refentment, when a con-
hopes, that though we had feen him
politic and, foothing me with the
with a lady, he might not be going to
marry her, I went to bed rather bet-
when I at firft difcovered it.
ter reconciled to my misfortune than

my eyes. Determined to be fatisfied, Reft, however, was a stranger to I rofe the next morning, and fending whether my conjectures were not true, for a chairman, ordered him to walk to lord Moreton's, and make enmaster was not going to be married. quiries among the fervants, if their

back ferved only to render me more The intelligence he brought me outrageous. He had indeed fpoke ornamenting and repairing; for from truth, when he told me the house was what the butler faid, his marriage was expected to take place the week fol lowing, and the fervants and workmen were in the greatest confufion from the hurry in which they had been ordered to prepare for their reception.

Mrs. Spencer, as foon as the man was
"What think you now?" faid I to
gone. "Is he not the meft vile of

men;

Adventures of Ella Worthy.

turn;

Moreton, quieted their fcruples; and as it can do no good to make them uneafy, I would not, for the world, they fhould hear of my difappointment till the newspapers inform them. Mrs. Spencer is going to Paris with a gentleman fhe met with about a week ago at the opera. I imagine they will be married before they rebut that is all conjecture. If you could come and ftay with me a few weeks, my friend, it would revive your Kitty's drooping fpirits. My lord is now fo much engaged, that we fhould be quite at liberty to go where we pleased; and as it is neceffity alone, which compels me to fubmit to remain a miftrefs, when I thought of being a wife, you will, I am fure, pity, and make allowances for

Your fincere,

But deluded friend,

K. TASTY.

high flown notions. If I might ad-
vife, the best thing you can do, now
your keeper is going to marry, is to
throw afide your fine cloaths, and
come down to your father's. I fup-
pofe he would not refufe to take you
in; and if you can fo determine, I
will endeavour to intercede for you;
for if you stay where you are, de-
pend upon it, worfe will come of it.
As the fchool-fellow of Betsey, I
fhould be forry to hear you came to
want, which, I think, is the only pro-
fpect in the ftate you now are.
may, perhaps, be offended at this plain
dealing, but remember, I am a mo-
ther, and no flatterer, though in the
main,

You

Your well-wisher,
MARTHA EVERGREEN.
(To be continued.)

your invitation to come and fee you, I wonder, Mifs Tafty, you fhould think of it. Though poor, thank God, we are honeft; and to be feen with a kept mitrefs would entirely ruin the girl's character. I do not doubt but she would come, if I would give her leave; but I have lived long enough in the world to know that fuch intimacies are far from being creditable; and as 1 have a match her in my eye, I fhould not with to be infected with any of your

Of the PEOPLE and DISPOSITION of
the HOLLANDERS, &C.

From Sir William Temple's OBSERVA-
TIONS on the UNITED PROVINCES,
chap. iv.

LETTER XX.

Mrs. EFVERGREEN to Miss TASTY.

be

TH
T divided into feveral claffes : the

I Suppofe, Madam, you will be
furprifed at a letter from me instead
of my daughter; but as I do not ap- clowns or boors, who cultivate the
prove of her correfpondence with you,lands; mariners, or schippers; the mer-
I thought it beft to tell you myfelf.chants or traders; the renteners, who
While there was any hopes of your live on the rents or interefts of eftates
marrying the nobleman who keeps formerly acquired in their families;
you, it was well enough, and I had no and the gentlemen and officers of their
objections to her writing: but as armies.
matters now ftand, muft beg you will
fend her no more letters and as to

The firft are a race of people diligent rather than laborious, dull and flow of understanding, not to be dealt with by hafty words, but managed eafily by foft and fair. In the country and villages not near the great towns, they feem plain and honeft, and content with their own, fo that if in bounty you give them a fhilling for what is worth but a groat, they will take the current price, and give you the reft; if you bid them take it, they know not what you mean, and fometimes afk, if you are a fool? They know no other good but what nature requires

Account of the Hollanders, from Sir W. Temple.

Thofe families which live upon their patrimonial estates in all great cities, are a people differently bred and mannered from the traders, though like them in the modefty of garb and habit, and the parfimony of living. Their youth are generally bred up at schools, and at the universities of Ley-of den and Utrecht, in the common ftudies of human learning, but chiefly of the civil law, which is that of their country, at least as far as it is fo in France and Spain.

VOL. XII.

public, with the esteem of their cities
or their country, and with the eafe of
their fortunes; which feldom fails,
by the frugality of their living, grown
univerfal by being at first neceffary,their
but fince honourable among them.

The mighty growth and excefs of
riches are feen among the merchants
and traders, whofe application lies bet-
ter that way, and who are the better
content to have fo little fhare in the
government, defiring only fecurity in
what they poffefs; troubled with no
cares but those of their fortunes, and
the management of their trades, and
turning the rest of their time and
thought to the divertisement of their
lives. Yet thefe, when they attain
great wealth, chufe to breed up their
fons in the way, and marry their
daughters into the families of thofe
others moft generally credited in their
towns, and verfed in their magiftra
cies; and thereby introduce their fathey have learned abroad, and make
milics into the way of government and a figure which agrees better with their
honour which confifts not here in own humour, and the manner of
titie, but in pub ic employments.
courts, than with the customs and or-
ders that prevail in popular govern
ments.
To be continued.)

The officers of their armies live after the customs and fashions of the gentlemen; and fo do many fons of the rich merchants, who returning from travel, have more defigns upon their own pleasure, and the vanity of appearance, than upon the fervice of their country or if they pretend to enter into that, it is rather by the army than the ftate. And all these are generally defirous to fee a court in their country, that they may value themfelves at home, by the qualities

The next rank among them, is that of their gentlemen or nobles, who in the province of Holland are very few, moft of the families having been extinguished in the long wars with Spain But what remain are in a manuer, all employed in the military or civil charges of the province or ftate. Thefe are, in their cultoms, and manners, and way of living, a good deal different from the reft of the people, and having been bred much abroad, rather

than they need; making fometimes
but ill copies, whereas they might be
good originals, by refining or improv-
ing of customs and virtues proper to
own country and climate. They
are otherwife an honeft, well-natured,
friendly, and gentlemanly fort of men,
and acquit themselves generally with
honour and merit, where their coun-
try employs them.

Suite d'Hipoire d'EPAMINONDAS. (Continued from Vol. XI. Page 659.)

ASON, qui étoit retourné ca
Theffalie, profita habilement de la
tufpenfion d'armes des Lacédémo-

affect the garb of their neighbour-niens & de Thebains, pour étendre de
courts, than the popular air of their jour en jour fes conquêtes; fon êpée
own country. They value themfelves lui foumettoit tous ceux, que fes tré-
more upon their nobility than men fors, fes artifices, & fon éloquence ne
do in other countries, where it is pouvoit gagner.
more common, and would think them-
felves utterly difhonoured by the mar-
riage of one that were not of their
rank, though it were to make up the
broken fortune of a noble family by
the wealth of a plebeian. They ftrive
to imitate the French in their mien,
their clothes, their way of talk, of
eating, of gallantry, or debauchery;
and are fomething worfe than they
would be, by affecting to be better

Il étoit parvenû à un degrè de puiffance qui le rendoit formidable à toute la Gréce. Il paroiffoit même qu'il en affectoit l'empire, & il dévenoit infenfiblement, par fes fuccès, & par l'accroiffement de fes forces, plus propre à le conquerir. La mort interrompit le cour de fes profpérités, & fit. echoüir fes grands deffeins. Le fort de la plupart des républicains qui s'ar rogent le pouvoir abfolû devint le fien.